Thesis: Given, - n-party political systems evolve/devolve into binary or unitary party systems. - a binary system is stable provided each individual party is stable. - no truly global unitary system has ever existed. - historicaly we see multi-party systems devolve into 2-3 primary parties. - it may be possible that the US is the first country in history to reach the unitary model. - that unitary position, if it exists, is not total, there being at least 1 3rd world level participant. in fact there being 200+ such parties. Then, - does the unitary position evolve/devolve back to a n-party system where the unitary party is either eliminated or reduced in stature. - is it reasonable that a single governmental system can possibly manage a global resource pool. - will we then see an averaging of political systems across the total set of parties. - is it possible, considering the range of human desires & beliefs, that a multiplicity at todays level of parties is a stable state, because of the averaging effect. In effect creating a global government rule-set for inter-national and intra-national behaviour. the root cause being that this averaging reduces the pay-off for violence and maximizes the pay-off for cooperating. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|